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Drying up: inside the Californian communities without enough water
California's Central Valley grows a large portion of America's food – and that requires a huge amount of water. But the region is experiencing a drought and drying up the surface water that farms rely on. So farms are now pumping water...
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People don't even look at me': eight black women discuss politics of light and dark skin
As part of our Shades of Black series, we invited eight women to talk about their experience of colorism in their relationships, careers and everyday life.
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Are computers killing the mystery of chess?
Chess is enjoying something of a renaissance, thanks to the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit – along with it being a game well-suited to Covid lockdowns.Yet many chess-lovers contend its lure is simultaneously being killed off by...
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Cuts, covid and community in Blackpool: 'There's no such thing as a hopeless case'
Mark and Abbie Butcher run Amazing Graze, a pizzeria that hands out free food and advice to people in Blackpool who need it. The town, one of the poorest in the UK, with jobs seasonal and dependent largely on tourist income, has been...
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How 'voodoo' became a metaphor for evil
Voodoo' has come to represent something evil when it appears in popular culture. 'Black magic', witchcraft – it's always portrayed as something to be feared. But in reality, Vodou, as it's correctly written, is an official religion...
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Why are period dramas so white?
Have you ever noticed that in film and on TV, period dramas tend to have almost entirely white casts? It’s almost as if, at least in film and TV land, black people do not feature in British history at all. The Guardian’s Josh...
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Why the first US cowboys were black
Historians estimate that one in four cowboys were African American, though you’d never guess because the conventional Hollywood image of a cowboy is a white man. Black cowboys have been written out of history, along with the original...
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The black art: wet plate collodion photography
Photographer Adrian Cook uses one of the oldest photographic processes to make unique images on aluminium plates. Guardian Australia's picture editor, Jonny Weeks, joins him in his portable darkroom for a shoot on Sydney Harbour. Cook...
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Being childfree: five women on why they chose not to have kids
As part of the Guardian's Childfree series, five women discuss why having children isn't for them – and how others perceive them as a result. 'There's no wrong way to be a woman,' says Sabrina, 25
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The ASMR videos that give YouTube viewers 'head orgasms
Online videos of soothing sounds known as ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) are increasingly popular. Fans enjoy the relaxing effects of these ‘head orgasms’. Here, the makers of ASMR YouTube channels including WhisperAudios,...
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Life in the Arctic: how climate change is killing a culture
As the arctic warms four times faster than the global average, Europe’s only indigenous population is under threat. For centuries, the Sámi people have herded reindeer throughout northern Europe. Now, warmer winters are turning the snow...
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How heat is radically altering Americans' lives before they're even born
Even before a child is born in the US, their race plays a huge part in how they'll experience heat and pollution. It starts with America's history of racist housing policies that segregated families of color into undesirable...
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Inside America's most extreme haunted house experience
McKamey Manor is one of the most extreme haunted house experiences in the US. Located in Russ McKamey’s San Diego backyard, the full ‘haunt’ lasts eight hours, yet no one has managed to complete it. McKamey has amassed a cult following...
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Run the code: is algorave the future of dance music?
By building up tracks through the manipulation of programming code – and pairing them with visuals also made on the fly – algorave producers are among the underground's most dextrous and daring work. Iman Amrani heads to Sheffield to...
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After you: the psychology of queues and how to beat them - video explainer
Queues are simple: you join at the back and wait your turn. But there's a whole branch of psychology devoted to studying how they work. Wimbledon publishes a guidebook on how to queue and major brands are obsessed with stopping you...
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Banned by the Taliban: the Afghan girls fighting to go to school
After the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, millions of teenage girls have been forbidden from receiving a high school education. Taliban officials have claimed the ban is temporary, but said the same thing the last time they were...
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Germany: What lies ahead is the past
A Neanderthal walks us through the passage of time to predict the future using the lessons of the past. Part of 'Europeans', an original drama series where seven writers from seven countries have created fictional scripts showing a...
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There's a lot of power in being young': Hamilton lead actor
Jamael Westman, the lead actor in the West End production of Hamilton, talks to the Guardian's Iman Amrani backstage at the Victoria Palace Theatre, discussing the power of youth to make change, whether Hamilton is part of a wider 'black...
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Life and death on billionaires' superyachts
The Guardian is granted exclusive access to some of the latest superyachts in Monaco. But what is life really like for the young people serving billionaires in the sun? We hear from a mother whose son died while he was working onboard a...
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I feel so guilty': Muslim women discuss removing their hijab at work
Following the ruling by the European court of justice to allow employers to ban religious symbols in the workplace, three Muslim women in Spain, The Netherlands and the UK talk about their experiences of looking for work while wearing a...
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Why is Russia still in love with Putin?
Established politicians the world over are facing crises of confidence with their electorates. But 17 years after he took charge of Russia, Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings are still high. Shaun Walker visits Irkutsk in Siberia to...
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The pig superbug and the baby
How did the antibiotic resistant pig superbug LA-MRSA find its way onto the umbilical cords of new born babies in Glasgow - and onto the shelves of our biggest supermarkets. Watch the Guardian’s investigation into how intensive pig...
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Pretty radical: a young woman's journey into the heart of Poland's far right
We follow 19-year-old Paulina, who joins Poland’s far-right National Radical Camp. She is quickly selected as a candidate in local elections because she’s ‘a pretty young woman’ who might improve the image of an organisation thought to...
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Inside Just Stop Oil: the 'hooligan' climate protesters taking on the tankers
Damien Gayle, a Guardian environment correspondent, follows a group of climate activists as they try to paralyse the UK's fossil fuel distribution network. We film with him as the protesters break into oil terminals, glue themselves to...